Eternal Fantasy

Teebs’ “Bound Ball”

I used to be all about the current fantasy… about making my fantasies a part of real life, about actualizing my desires in the moment I conceive of them. The current fantasy is about what I want, right now, and about chasing it. If I want to dance, I’m going to dance. If I want a cat, I’ll get a cat. If the current fantasy is ice cream, a strawberry sundae it is. Don’t think twice. Ice cream.

While the current fantasy has brought me on many.. scenic routes.. I am starting to think there is something to be said about another type of fantasy, that is, what I call the eternal fantasy.
An eternal fantasy is one which may be flat out impossible (or at least highly unlikely). Speaking with my cat for example. Or dating a celebrity. Or being able to fly. Or actually meeting the Keebler Elves and making cookies with them in their treehouse. It just won’t happen.. I’ll forever be dreaming.
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The eternal fantasy, in its impossibility, used to depress me. It was sad to think I would never be able to actually talk to my cat or date a celebrity. But this post is about the fact that I’ve re-evaluated my avoidance of the eternal fantasy. I’m starting to think that maybe, just maybe, fantasizing is the end in itself..

In other words, it doesn’t matter whether or not the fantasy actually comes true. In fact, we derive more pleasure from fantasizing if it doesn’t. I believe it’s the act of fantasizing alone that brings us pleasure. It’s about daydreaming of being with that one person who you could never have, or of walking through your own imaginary kingdom and being addressed as “your majesty.” These thoughts entertain us, make us smile, keep us up at night, even give us goosebumps.

When you fantasize, your dreams become bigger than yourself, they become bigger than reality, and the mere thought of something so great is what makes you love fantasizing about it to begin with. It is the idea of your fantasy that you love, that you get happiness from, and so it should not be upsetting when you realize that the fantasy won’t come true.

The closest chance we have to reaching a fantasy world, a world of happiness and passion, is by keeping these very fantasies alive.

“Allegro non Troppo,” a 1973 Italian film which parallels Disney’s “Fantasia”

1894 film “Danse Serpentine” (one of the first films in color)

Indeed dreams drive us all..

Artists today: Karol Bak, Alexander Jansson, Zdislaw Beksinski

Collage

Carolina Ana Bagayan

Marion Peck

“Squirrelly”

“Bunny Love”

“Kittens”

Katy O’Malley

“My Cat”

“They Call Her Lucky Lu”

“Charlotte’s Cat”

“Charlotte’s Cat is Fat”

“Dinner”

Penabranca

Underrated Spanish surrealist painter, Ms. Remedios Varo (1908-1963)

Bengt Brockman

My favorites are 1, 4 and 7. You?

Well, darkness only exists so that the stars can shine

Witch house. Nice “Oh holy Night” vocals mixed with a hip hop beat and drowned in bass. It’s uhm, music of the future

the dark side of Mike Mitchell

See, I have a collection of dark things too. We’re not always eating ice cream and licking lollipops on this blog. Or maybe we are. I’ve never watched a horror movie in my life, maybe you can tell.

Scott Musgrove’s surreal creatures

a friend and I were talking about how we were glad for nightmares, where the worst of the worst of situations postulated by the subconscious can be played out in a mimetic reality. everyone and everything you deal with in the dream has been created by your own mind, so you should take advantage of it, and learn from what it tells you, while not having to deal with consequences. nightmares serve an important purpose. nightmares seem to warn us about the state of our subconscious and reveal us to the objects of our memory that have been brushed aside to make way for “rationality”

nightmares can turn our worst fears inside out, make us aware of something we had been blissfully ignoring for a bit too long. nightmares can be a medium for growth and re-evaluation, like when you wake up in the morning and you wonder why you spent the entire night facing a gang of malicious clowns in a school building that was also trying to kill you*?

*I don’t actually have dreams like that

you could say that a dream is a place for the conscious and the subconscious to have a cup of tea,

a little chat.

Tom French’s incredible illustrations

I like the way darkness is portrayed here-

Not as something frightening, but as an excellent medium for someone to document the flight patterns of lightning bugs.

Photos by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu

“Like balloons, we are filled with hopes and dreams. But. Over time a single sentence creeps into our lives. Don’t be stupid. It’s the crusher of possibility. It’s the worlds greatest deflator. The world is full of smart people. Doing all kind of smart things… Thats smart.
Well, we’re with stupid. Stupid is the relentless pursuit of a regret free life. Smart may have the brains…
but stupid has the balls. The smart might recognize things for how they are. The stupid see things for how they could be. Smart critiques. Stupid creates. The fact is if we didnt have stupid thoughts wed have no interesting thoughts at all. Smart may have the plans… but stupid has the stories.
Smart may have the authority but stupid has one hell of a hangover. Its not smart to take risks… Its stupid.
To be stupid is to be brave. The stupid isnt afraid to fail. The stupid know there are worse things than failure… like not even trying.
Smart had one good idea, and that idea was stupid. You can’t outsmart stupid. So don’t even try. Remember only stupid can be truly brilliant.”

( Source from Diesel )